Robert Siegel talks to professor Ilija Casule of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. His research shows that a language spoken by about 90,000 people in a remote area of Pakistan is ...

The picturesque valleys of northern Pakistan are the cradles of many strange languages and cultures. The languages spoken here — virtually little explored just like these valleys —include Balti, Shina ...

Consider this: Out of a population of around 12.5 million in Jammu and Kashmir, there are just 350 Burushaski speakers. But the language is spoken by around 100,000 people in the Hunza, Nagar, and ...

The first-ever feature film in the endangered Burushaski language, "Hun Dan: An Echo of a Dirge," was exclusively screened at the Islamabad Club cinema over the weekend, drawing an enthusiastic ...

KARACHI: Amongst the handful of female singers that we have here in Pakistan, there is Natasha Baig – a girl from Hunza, looking to make it big. Within a few years of being in the industry, Natasha ...

Hun Dan, Pakistan’s first-ever Burushaski language film, failed to reach the Academy Awards despite being officially selected ...

ilgit-Baltistan has a rich legacy of traditions and culture with a huge tourism potential but folk musicians of the area are concerned about their craft and language disappearing. There have been some ...

A first-ever feature film in the endangered Burushaski language, 'Hun Dan: An Echo of a Dirge' was exclusively screened at the Islamabad Club cinema this weekend. The event drew a large gathering of ...

It's like discovering a distant cousin, a really distant cousin. It's like learning that someone you had barely heard of is actually part of the family. In this case, the family is the Indo-European ...